Senate Approves End To Government Shutdown

The House will vote later tonight, but the Senate is the body that got it done.

The Senate tonight approved a compromise proposal that would fund the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt limit until Feb. 7.

Eighty-one senators voted in favor of the measure and 18 voting against it…

The compromise was completed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after a House effort to offer a counter-proposal nearly derailed Senate negotiations.

The final agreement makes only insignificant changes to President Obama’s health care law, by requiring income verification for people receiving health care subsidies from the government. And it also authorizes a bipartisan committee of negotiators to hammer out a long-term budget deal by Dec. 13, before government funding runs out again in January.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.